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I bought Cat's Cradle and also Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version by Philip Pullman. I want to buy There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya. There's always a book I want to buy.

Holy mackrel! I just held that book on Friday. The print was too small, so I decided to wait and look for a larger print version.
Got this instead.
Tells why certain classic books have their titles.
For instance,

Okay, you got me laughing before 5am out loud. That's a first.
Must have started doing something else, and posted without checking.

For instance,...
Upon documenting certain facts and correlation with author's life, there is the Winnie-the-Pooh theory.
Winnie-the-Pooh was a real bear, who was a mascot in the British army. He was named after a Canadian town of Winnipeg, by his owner, a British soldier. He was donated to a British zoo. And the author of Pooh, A. Milne, took his son to the zoo at the time of Winnie being a resident of said zoo. Gary Dexter talks about a picture of Milne's son feeding Winnie a baby bottle of milk.
However, the Pooh name is referring to a swan Milne's son used to feed. So Winnie-the-Pooh maybe some sort of mish mash of the two creatures.
Hope I got all that right. My book is in the car, and I'm not going out there to reference right now.

Then there is Catch 22, Cinderella, Plato's Republic, Clockwork Orange, E. E. Cumming's The Waste Land, and a bunch of others. He talks about the reason of the titles of 50 books in all.

Upon documenting certain facts and correlation with author's life, there is the Winnie-the-Pooh theory.
Winnie-the-Pooh was a real bear, who was a mascot in the British army. He was named after a Canadian town of Winnipeg, by his owner, a British soldier. He was donated to a British zoo. And the author of Pooh, A. Milne, took his son to the zoo at the time of Winnie being a resident of said zoo. Gary Dexter talks about a picture of Milne's son feeding Winnie a baby bottle of milk.
However, the Pooh name is referring to a swan Milne's son used to feed. So Winnie-the-Pooh maybe some sort of mish mash of the two creatures.

Don't know why one would have to correlate with AA Milne's life; this is pretty much exactly how Christopher Milne explained it.

Clarification. Pooh was what Christopher Milne called the swan. When Christopher named his teddy bear Pooh, after the bear he had met at the zoo, his father pointed out that Pooh was the swan's name. Christopher Robin explained, exasperatedly, "But this is Winnie ther (sic) Pooh." So, it makes perfect sense.

Zachariah named her. This was back when he wanted to change his name to Christopher Robin and then became the happiest boy in the world upon being told Christopher was already in his name, but he mis-heard and thought it was Christopher Robin and thought we were the coolest parents any four year old boy ever had. I couldn't correct him, not when all his dreams just came true in that moment.

Our first cat was called Jacqueline, based on a French writer who wrote a really beautiful novel, a cloak and dagger love story called Divine Zephyrine. It must have been one of the first novels I've read, and I was 8 or 9. Then the cat got cancer 6 years ago and I got to see her put down.

Our first cat was called Jacqueline, based on a French writer who wrote a really beautiful novel, a cloak and dagger love story called Divine Zephyrine. It must have been one of the first novels I've read, and I was 8 or 9. Then the cat got cancer 6 years ago and I got to see her put down.

Upon documenting certain facts and correlation with author's life, there is the Winnie-the-Pooh theory.
Winnie-the-Pooh was a real bear, who was a mascot in the British army. He was named after a Canadian town of Winnipeg, by his owner, a British soldier. He was donated to a British zoo. And the author of Pooh, A. Milne, took his son to the zoo at the time of Winnie being a resident of said zoo. Gary Dexter talks about a picture of Milne's son feeding Winnie a baby bottle of milk.
However, the Pooh name is referring to a swan Milne's son used to feed. So Winnie-the-Pooh maybe some sort of mish mash of the two creatures.

Don't know why one would have to correlate with AA Milne's life; this is pretty much exactly how Christopher Milne explained it.

Clarification. Pooh was what Christopher Milne called the swan. When Christopher named his teddy bear Pooh, after the bear he had met at the zoo, his father pointed out that Pooh was the swan's name. Christopher Robin explained, exasperatedly, "But this is Winnie ther (sic) Pooh." So, it makes perfect sense.

That's what I said. And the bear's existence at the same time and locale, was to correlate, where he got the name.
You are completely right.

It's a collection of all the Thin Man stuff that Dashiell Hammett after the novel, consisting of two screen stories (the format is between novella and screenplay) and the first eight pages of a sequel project.

Looking forward to reading it, but what I am getting impatient about is the collected Hammett nonfiction titled Crime Wave, which has been on hold for about two years.

My latest gatherings after using gift cards, searching through thrift stores, and ordering from Amazon.

I kind of want the Invisible Monsters remix. I don't even know what it is and I'm not the biggest fan of the cover... but I still want it.

I read Out of the Dust last year to help my friend's little sister with her homework. It was like getting punched in the face with sadness. Repeatedly. Fuck that book. I probably water damaged it with my tears.

Those Roth books will be my first and I'm excited. Also, I felt it only necessary that I get the Invisible Monsters remix because it was my first Palahniuk book and still my favorite. I've heard about Out of the Dust. I'll probably soak it in tears too, being more emotional than normal lately, but I enjoy a good cry while reading occasionally. And hells yes MonkeyMike! I read a few pages last night and already love his style. I figured I would, since he and I love the same influences and all.

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